Hope available for patients with anemia and myelodysplastic syndrome
...s. "These blood disorders are not simply quality of life diseases, but carry with them serious health concerns that may endanger patients' lives," said Stanley Schrier, M.D., President-Elect of the American Society of Hematology. "Research such as that presented during the ASH annual meeti...Abandoned penguin colonies may help refine Antarctic climate studies
... a general warming of the climate in Antarctica or simply part of some other natural process in which pieces of ice break away--or "calve"--from the Ross and other ice shelves in the same way that human fingernails break off when they reach a certain length. But Emslie noted, paradoxically, even if the calv...Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
...lot of Ricketts' wording, and that huge chunks are simply cut and paste.'' A few months ago, Ed Ricketts Jr. provided Rodger a newly discovered typescript of his father's original notes, which include previously unpublished details about the 1940 expedition. Reading through the typescript reveals numerous p...Yeast helps researchers better understand Parkinson's mystery
.... "Does the biology of the protein change? Does it simply sit there? Does it cause problems to the cell?" When aSyn was produced at low levels, it made its way to the cell membrane and appeared to regulate chemical trafficking and metabolism of compounds called lipids what may be normal functions for this...Whites, African-Americans better rate medical care experiences when seeing same-race physicians
...hip, she says. "However, this study suggests that simply training physicians to make conversation in race-discordant visits mimic that of race-concordant visits may not be enough to improve patients' experiences in visits with a physician of a different race. Increasing ethnic diversity among physicians a...Technique kills cancerous cells, leaves healthy cells intact
... done in microtiter dishes, where the compound was simply exposed to leukemia and lymphoma cells and healthy... because cells die in a programmed fashion and are simply engulfed by other cells. Necrosis is essentially an accidental breakdown that results in the spilli...First-ever UN University diploma offered to grads of online water-management course
...nt of the program: "Many practicing professionals simply can't take time off to pursue a two-year course or even a two-week course. Distance education has become very successful because it allows people to participate as part of their on-the-job training. "Designing an education program for global deliver...Does shade coffee help or hinder conservation?
...gorous certification programs. The problem is that simply being grown in the shade is not enough to make coffee bird-friendly. Besides the traditional farms where shade is provided by a diverse canopy, there are also multi-crop coffee farms where shade is provided by cacao and a few other economically valua...Steroid use causes long-term agression, NU report indicates
... know at this point is that aggressiveness doesn't simply cease after the ingestion of steroids does." Based on this research, Melloni also believes that athletes who abuse steroids may also be inclined toward aggressive behavior long after their drug abuse and musculature have waned....Researchers design and build first artificial protein
...trary protein structure, it might be that there is simply no amino acid sequence that will fold up to that structure. We had to develop methods to computationally sample possible structures similar to the one drawn on the back of the envelope, searching for a conformation for which there exists a very low e...... in Japan kept a close eye on her. Initially, Ione simply left her baby on the ground in front of her 21-year-old mother, Alberta, who picked him up and handed him back. When Ione made no move to take the baby, Alberta moved closer pushing the newborn into his mother's face until she took him. Variations o...Study suggests new view of gene activation as a dynamic process
... active role in controlling genes. And they do not simply alter the DNA structure to permit activation, as some scientists have thought. Instead, the addition and removal of the ubiquitin group, in this case, actively recruits crucial molecules into the gene-activation process and then releases them at spec...US crackdown on bioterror backfiring
...eaks, bioterrorist or natural, are being destroyed simply because labs cannot comply with the new rules. The...en of what the government considers 'biosafety' is simply not coincident with the practice of sound, creative scientific research." It is now two years since...Dietary supplement many not lower prostate cancer risk
...at risks of poor dietary habits cannot be reversed simply by taking a pill," says study co-author Steven K. Clinton, associate professor of hematology and oncology and of human nutrition. "We shouldn't expect easy solutions to complex problems. We must focus more on choosing a variety of healthy foods, exer...Lycopene's anti-cancer effect linked to other tomato components
...at risks of poor dietary habits cannot be reversed simply by taking a pill," Clinton, a professor of hematology and oncology and of human nutrition, said in an Ohio State news release. "We shouldn't expect easy solutions to complex problems. We must focus more on choosing a variety of healthy foods, exerci...Study explores safety of low-dose radiation
...re largely avoided in pregnant women, unless there simply is no option, Dr. Barrett says. He hopes the new study will help quantify the risk and determine subsets of people who may be more - or less - susceptible to damage. "We'd like to find new genes that nobody knows about yet that are involved in pro...Extraterrestrial enigma: missing amino acids in meteorites
...d Urey showed that amino acids were synthesized by simply creating lightning-like electrical discharges through a fog of water, methane and ammonia all of which were thought to be readily available in Earth's early years. The experiment was proof that amino acids, out of which all life's proteins are made,...Researchers define molecular basis of human 'sweet tooth'
...hat our own sweet preferences are likely to be not simply an issue of cultural differences, as some have argued, but to be genetically encoded." For example, slight genetic differences in receptor proteins "might explain why one person needs five spoons of sugar in his coffee and another needs only two -- b...Beyond biology: Simple system yields custom-designed proteins
...uctures. Hecht suspected that these proteins were simply too short to achieve a good structure and added amino acids to each sequence, making them 40 percent longer. In their latest findings, the researchers found that this new library contained well-folded proteins. They subjected one to a painstaking tes......ions, such as water-logging, that modern varieties simply cannot cope with. And farmers take the diversity contained in modern varieties and breed with it to enhance the performance of their own traditional varieties. In the developed world biodiversity is seen as the raw material from which breeders craft ...